Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures Chapter 1694 Discussion

I'd give this story a 3.5. My first Harry Potter fanfic, and the story was pretty good. Most of the other reviews already touch upon the plot, so I will just mention a couple things I dislike so far...

The first being the romance between the main character and Hermione. In the original story, she ends up with Ron of all people, so I was pretty surprised at the fact that she could be so prideful around the MC when he has pretty much only ever been amazing or brilliant. Their romance starts off pretty cute, because they're both so young and are limited to holding hands and kissing. The whole contrived fight at the ball in later chapters did not seem to really align with Hermione's character, but in some ways her change has become better with the MC acting as a foil instead of Ron. I don't really like how much they try and glorify her character, and increasing interactions with the MC just make me dislike her more and more. And as the story progresses, I begin to dread every interaction between Hermione and the MC. He always acts super beta, and is just like *sigh* guess I gotta go do whatever she tells me/back her up even when she's being childish or dumb. Hermione pretty much has the MC wrapped around her finger: dangerous situation? bring me along too! etc, etc.

Another thing I disliked was how pathetic Ron is portrayed throughout the story, with the only explanation being "but he's still a good guy"... The saving grace for Ron is that as the story progresses, his character becomes less pathetic (but he is still ab*sed by unlucky or unfortunate events, as seen in the latest chapters).

And the author tries to downplay how OP the MC is by highlighting how vulnerable he is or how he underestimates things, like things diverging from the original story line, but that doesn't really give us much fear for the MC who can seemingly do or get away with anything. Voldemort ain't sh*t in front of the MC after a few hundred chapters from when he recognized that Voldemort was scary and dangerous. Now Voldy is just dangerous, but not scary.